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Subtribe Apalochrina

soft-winged flower beetle - Collops cribrosus - male Swollen Beetle - Collops tricolor Collops tibialis Schaeffer - Collops tibialis beetle from sand dunes - Collops nigriceps Collops - Collops histrio - female Collops granellus? - Collops - female Red & Black Beetle - Collops - female Collops quadrimaculatus? - Collops quadrimaculatus - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cleroidea
Family Melyridae (Soft-winged Flower Beetles)
Subfamily Malachiinae
Tribe Malachiini
Subtribe Apalochrina
Explanation of Names
Apalochrina Mulsant & Rey 1867
Numbers
00 genera in our area, 30 genera total(1)(2)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.BioLib.cz